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Commemorating the SIEV X: Julie Stephens on memory and memorial activism.(ARTS AND CULTURE)

The SIEV X memorial in Canberra's Weston Park raises crucial questions about the politics of memory. It also raises issues about how the cultural history of asylum in Australia at the beginning of the millennium will be recorded. Unique in Australia, the 353 hand-painted poles each commemorate one of the victims of the sinking of the refugee boat that has come to be known as the SIEV X. These handpainted poles combine as a way of memorialising that is radically inclusive, pluralistic and democratic and, as I will argue, that refuses to allow a passive, disinterested viewing experience. As attested by the debates in The Canberra Timesin October last year, and the references to ...

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